Tractate of Mishna describing the process and who can do Levirate marriage, Chalitza and when an Aguna can get married
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How did Lot's daughters get pregnant from bi'ah rishonah
Lot's daughters were virgins, as he tells the Sodomites who wanted to rape the angels that were staying with him. Do any commentators address how they managed to get pregnant even though their relations with their father were the first they had in…
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One case is missing from פרק חרש שנשא
The end of the fourteenth chapter of mishnayos Y’vamos go through cases of two brothers’ marriages. The first cases are where both brothers, or both their wives, are deaf-mutes. Then come the following cases, in this order:
one brother is a…
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Why "the" widow in Y'vamos chapter 9?
The first couple of mishnayos in chapter nine of Y'vamos list classes of women, each of whom is permitted to marry her first husband but forbidden to marry his brother on his childless death, or vice versa, or forbidden to marry either, or permitted…
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Why "How so?" in Y'vamos 5:2?
The Mishna, Y'vamos 5:1–2:
רבן גמליאל אומר, אין גט אחר גט ולא מאמר אחר מאמר ולא בעילה אחר בעילה ולא חליצה אחר חליצה. וחכמים אומרים, יש גט אחר גט ויש מאמר אחר מאמר אבל לא אחר בעילה ולא אחר חליצה כלום. כיצד? עשה מאמר ביבמתו ונתן לה גט, צריכה הימנו…
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